January 10th, 2010 by martin
Here are some of the posters for a project called “turbo tutorium”. Basically students organize a variety of tutorials thus sharing their skills free of charge. Everybody is welcome to attend and request classes.

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January 7th, 2010 by martin
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T. S. Eliot

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December 13th, 2009 by martin
that’s how it is… no more, no less!

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December 11th, 2009 by martin
Der code vom ehemaligen twittdoor script wurde neu geschrieben.
Mehr dazu von Ed via maschinenraum:
“Ich hab mich dann doch ‘heut’ mal hingesetzt und eine komplett neue Version von dem Script gebaut was cron dazu bewegt den Status der Tür auf Twitter veröffentlichen zu lassen. Aus mangelnden C-Kenntnissen und Konzeptkritik der alten Version hab ich das einfach mal in PHP hingehackt und was ich so getestet hab, läuft das auch echt knorke.
Der Status der Tür wird mit dem auf Twitter abgeglichen und dabei muss nur innerhalb der letzten 10 Tweets was über den Status stehen. Denn die Tür soll ja in den nächsten Versionen auch Kommentare oder ähnliches von sich geben können. Naja what ever. Der Source steht unter einer WTFPL und wem weitere Zweckentfremdungen einfallen kann ja bitte einen Kommentar, Trackback, Ping, … da lassen.
Den Source gibt’s hier.”
Danke Ed!!!

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November 18th, 2009 by martin
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November 10th, 2009 by martin
There are several people not having a key to the “MaschinenRaum” and they don’t wanna get out of bed just for standing in front of a locked door. So we decided to let the door tweet whether it’s locked or not.
We started with a LPT cable that is connected to the parallel port on our server.
On the other end there is a switch inside the door that is pressed by the bolt as soon as the door is locked. When the button is pressed, pin 10 of the LPT cable which usually carries 4.5V is grounded. We can now monitor this state of change with a tool called “pin” provided by the “parashell” package and send out a tweet with the help of a cron job and “blt“.
You can follow our door here.




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October 31st, 2009 by martin
Our next project, supported by the “MaschinenRaum”, is casemodding a Mate-case.
Interior will be a P3 with 1000MB RAM running an ubuntu 9.10 as a workstation for our hacklab in weimar.
A 17″ TFT screen and a webcam will be integrated.



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